aasharon90

Hi, im Sharon. I am an Alcoholic.

Has anyone gone to a special place
for Spring Break?

Where did you go? Who did you
go with?

For me, I wasnt allowed to go
on Spring Break back in High School,
so I have no experience to share on
it.

Today at 50 yrs. old, 20 yrs sober,
Im finally going to experience it
in Daytona, Fla. for their Bike Ralley
in early March.

If you did experience Spring Break,
were you drinking or using or were
you clean and sober?

Supercrew

Living in San Diego for the last 35 years made it so I didn't have to do Spring Breaks....Spring Breaks did us! Since I was 16 we would always find our way down south of the border. Spent many drunken days and nights in Ensenada, Rosarito and TJ, also did a couple rounds in Palm Springs....and I always was drunk as a skunk. In fact even as recently as last year Spring Break I felt the urge to pound a bottle of tequila and a case of beer and judge a bikini contest. Although I am now sober, I can still admit that I did have some fun drunken times as well....as far as I remember! But to be fair and even in the memory department I have found myself in a Mexican jail more than a handful of times, and I would not wish that on anyone.

It was a coming of age...for the better part of 27 years.

BigBluef250

I would always go to the Mountains for SB. After a full day of skiing I was ready to get tanked. The problem was that it never stopped after SB, it would continue on for a few weeks after. After the first few times in jail, I learned to be a better drunk. Now I try and ski hard and then go to bed!!

Mike

Ghostly

I've never done a Spring Break like you mean. Never been much of a party-er.

Have fun though Sharon. You've earned it. Congrats on all the sober time! You rock.

stanleyhouse

Sharon
I bet you are going to have a good time in the sun watching all the people. I have never had what they call a SB exerience with crowds and music and I assume booze everywhere, but I did treat myself last year. I went to the ocean to celebrate six months sobriety and woke up everyday grateful for my new life. I am doing a similar SB this year to celebrate a year and a half.
For me, this new life enables me to travel because before my physical addiction would not allow me to be away from the "source" long enough before serious withdrawal symptoms would occur.
Congratulations on your success. I hope to be where you are in 20 yrs, still sober but maybe not on a bike.
SH

aasharon90

Thanks guys for chiming in on ur
experiences on Spring Break.

When making our plans last
year about a Florida trip this
year, Spring Break didnt carry
a meaning to us. All we were
thinking about was riding to
Daytona for a few days to experience
their bike rally.

Then we wanted to add on to
the trip and possibly extend it
to Panama City staying in the
same hotel my parent took 4
of us kids to for many years.

In calling to get info in Panama
City we learned that the hotel
was already booked for Spring
Break.

So we blew that off because we
wanted to take a trip to the beach
when it is not crowded with students.

Down the road we almost scrapped
the Fla. trip as we focused on getting
our bike completed with a new addition.

Finally, the trip was on again and
now im realizing that Daytona will
be littered with students on Spring
Break and that for the first time I
will be there with them. YIKES..!!!!

Well, it should be fun seeing all the
bikes and having a room on the beach
to relax ...well we hope too....lol
in the sun and at night....

If it gets too loud and rowdy then
we have that option to leave. Right?

gabagool

Shoot
Id equate spring break like the TIGER WOODS of bars....I don't know if its possible to go to spring break without drinking, for me, at this point. Spring break IS about getting ****faced, or at least it was 20 years ago...and I doubt its gotten tamer.

Thats a tough one, one I would have to pass on right now...

Zebra1275

My 20 year old daughter who has always been a mature, level headed kid informed me that she is going on spring break in a couple of weeks with her friends. Now as a dad I'm thinking back to the spring break experiences of my college years and I'm, let's say, a bit apprehensive. I know what guys are like on spring break because I once was one.

Then she informs me that the trip she has planned with a couple of friends is an organized school activity where the kids go to 5 towns in 5 days on the way down south, doing various types of volunteer service /leadership work in each town. Then the group arrives in Houston, relaxes for a couple of days and then flys back to campus. The whole spring break experience is about $400 for the week. Instead of landing in a "Girls Gone Wild" video she will be doing leadership activities that she can put on her resume'.

Did I luck out in the kid department, or what?

aasharon90

I too had kids in school not too
long ago. both of mine got into
band. That to us was an awesome
activity for kids to be in because
there was hardly anytime to goof
off.

They kept their grades up and
practiced practiced practiced.

This was also an expensive
activity but gave them many
terrific experiences that they
will use towards their own lives
for many years to come.

All the trips were well chaparoned
including my ex husband. Parents
were always there to help the kids
along the way. Which made their
trips easier and memorable.

By the time my kids began band
I was already in recovery and both
kids new all that was involved with
my drinking. I shared all I could on
a daily bases about the pros and cons
of alcohol and drug use. I even had
pictures to saw them as proof of what
drinking and drinking could result in.

No dont get me wrong, my kids were
kids and like all they went thru their
growing and changing stages like everyone
else. and they had fun.

I remember one incident when my son
was in his first yrs of college and they
went to Super Bowl that yr where the
band performed. The night the band
arrived they settled into their rooms
and were out walking they stopped
inside a car garage where my son
spotted a shopping cart.

Well, he decides to get in it and ride
it down the ramp. Sure enough he did
and crashed a wall sending him to the
hospital the night with a head injury.

That was the call we got in the night
that no parent wants to get.

We were many miles away from him
so we couldnt get to him immediately.
His friends and school authority took
care of him in our place and the next
day my son was able to sit amongst
his band members for Super Bowl.

WHEW...!!!!!

He is and was a mature, smart kid
and knew what he was going to do
would end up in harm, yet in the
mist of all the excitement of the
festivities he decided to let his guard
down and have fun. Right..! lol

A lesson learned the hard way and an
experience he can share with his own
kids when they go off on school trips.